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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

offsite link Fraud and mismanagement at University College Cork Thu Aug 28, 2025 18:30 | Calli Morganite
UCC has paid huge sums to a criminal professor
This story is not for republication. I bear responsibility for the things I write. I have read the guidelines and understand that I must not write anything untrue, and I won't.
This is a public interest story about a complete failure of governance and management at UCC.

offsite link Deliberate Design Flaw In ChatGPT-5 Sun Aug 17, 2025 08:04 | Mind Agent
Socratic Dialog Between ChatGPT-5 and Mind Agent Reveals Fatal and Deliberate 'Design by Construction' Flaw
This design flaw in ChatGPT-5's default epistemic mode subverts what the much touted ChatGPT-5 can do... so long as the flaw is not tickled, any usage should be fine---The epistemological question is: how would anyone in the public, includes you reading this (since no one is all knowing), in an unfamiliar domain know whether or not the flaw has been tickled when seeking information or understanding of a domain without prior knowledge of that domain???!

This analysis is a pretty unique and significant contribution to the space of empirical evaluation of LLMs that exist in AI public world... at least thus far, as far as I am aware! For what it's worth--as if anyone in the ChatGPT universe cares as they pile up on using the "PhD level scholar in your pocket".

According to GPT-5, and according to my tests, this flaw exists in all LLMs... What is revealing is the deduction GPT-5 made: Why ?design choice? starts looking like ?deliberate flaw?.

People are paying $200 a month to not just ChatGPT, but all major LLMs have similar Pro pricing! I bet they, like the normal user of free ChatGPT, stay in LLM's default mode where the flaw manifests itself. As it did in this evaluation.

offsite link AI Reach: Gemini Reasoning Question of God Sat Aug 02, 2025 20:00 | Mind Agent
Evaluating Semantic Reasoning Capability of AI Chatbot on Ontologically Deep Abstract (bias neutral) Thought
I have been evaluating AI Chatbot agents for their epistemic limits over the past two months, and have tested all major AI Agents, ChatGPT, Grok, Claude, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, for their epistemic limits and their negative impact as information gate-keepers.... Today I decided to test for how AI could be the boon for humanity in other positive areas, such as in completely abstract realms, such as metaphysical thought. Meaning, I wanted to test the LLMs for Positives beyond what most researchers benchmark these for, or have expressed in the approx. 2500 Turing tests in Humanity?s Last Exam.. And I chose as my first candidate, Google DeepMind's Gemini as I had not evaluated it before on anything.

offsite link Israeli Human Rights Group B'Tselem finally Admits It is Genocide releasing Our Genocide report Fri Aug 01, 2025 23:54 | 1 of indy
We have all known it for over 2 years that it is a genocide in Gaza
Israeli human rights group B'Tselem has finally admitted what everyone else outside Israel has known for two years is that the Israeli state is carrying out a genocide in Gaza

Western governments like the USA are complicit in it as they have been supplying the huge bombs and missiles used by Israel and dropped on innocent civilians in Gaza. One phone call from the USA regime could have ended it at any point. However many other countries are complicity with their tacit approval and neighboring Arab countries have been pretty spinless too in their support

With the release of this report titled: Our Genocide -there is a good chance this will make it okay for more people within Israel itself to speak out and do something about it despite the fact that many there are actually in support of the Gaza

offsite link China?s CITY WIDE CASH SEIZURES Begin ? ATMs Frozen, Digital Yuan FORCED Overnight Wed Jul 30, 2025 21:40 | 1 of indy
This story is unverified but it is very instructive of what will happen when cash is removed
THIS STORY IS UNVERIFIED BUT PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO OR READ THE TRANSCRIPT AS IT GIVES AN VERY GOOD IDEA OF WHAT A CASHLESS SOCIETY WILL LOOK LIKE. And it ain't pretty

A single video report has come out of China claiming China's biggest cities are now cashless, not by choice, but by force. The report goes on to claim ATMs have gone dark, vaults are being emptied. And overnight (July 20 into 21), the digital yuan is the only currency allowed.

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Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005

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dublin / anti-capitalism / other press Monday March 20, 2006 01:01 by sp   text 29 comments (last - wednesday march 22, 2006 12:18)
Over 40 people attended a debate between Socialist Youth (SY) and the anarchist group Workers’ Solidarity Movement (WSM). The lively debate had speeches and good discussions on two main points: How to organise to change society? What’s the alternative to capitalism?
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galway / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday March 19, 2006 18:49 by Dunlo T   text 1 comment (last - sunday march 19, 2006 19:57)
In today's Independent on Sunday (UK), Severin Carrell reveals that the number of soldiers absconding from the British Army has trebled since the invasion of Iraq, raising fears that the military is facing a crisis in moral
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Sunday March 19, 2006 01:12 by Terence   text 3 comments (last - monday march 20, 2006 23:35)
This report is about a SAS solider who was serving for the imperialists in Iraq in the SAS and his conscience got the better of him. Thankfully. read full story / add a comment
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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 17, 2006 18:12 by John Leonard   image 1 image
Send a cute St. Pat's Day Greeting from www.PeaceWish.com read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Friday March 17, 2006 13:30 by Caitlin
Thank you Tim, Ed, Conor, et alia! US media now reporting what we've all known for years--and the pressure's on Bertie!

Watch the video here--and send it far and wee!

http://tinyurl.com/lpqgx read full story / add a comment
national / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 16, 2006 23:50 by Elaine   text 2 comments (last - saturday march 18, 2006 21:06)
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Breaking News Section
13:49 Wednesday March 15th 2006

A group of TDs and Senators opposed to the US use of Shannon Airport have been ejected from the main terminal at the Co Clare facility today.

The politicians from the Labour Party, the Green Party and Sinn Fein, along with a number of independents, staged a "fly-in protest" at the airport today. read full story / add a comment
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international / racism & migration related issues / other press Thursday March 16, 2006 22:15 by redjade   text 10 comments (last - friday april 07, 2006 02:02)   image 4 images
'Can they be bought off by a special program for a handful of remaining illegals? I'm not saying it's a good idea, but you just start talking about the old sod and singing 'Danny Boy,' and of course it's possible.' - NY Times read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Thursday March 16, 2006 16:09 by pat c   text 3 comments (last - saturday march 18, 2006 11:37)   image 2 images
Yet another example of the repression under which Iranian Women must live. Even when they try to celebrate International Womens Day they are beaten off the streets. Support these women in their struggle against Islam, dont support the mullahs.

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international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Thursday March 16, 2006 08:25 by Brian Covert / Independent Journalist
As the three-year mark of the U.S. invasion of Iraq nears, Makoto Oda, one of Japan's most prominent authors and anti-war activists in the last half-century, looks back on wars of the past....and ahead to the path toward peace in the future. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 18:26 by Terence
The World Socialist Website (WSWS) has published a 3 part series of articles titiled:
"The dead-end of European capitalism and the tasks of the working class". It is an interesting analysis of the current state of capitalism in Europe read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 15:04 by nano
It should now be apparent to all that the usual strategies have proven ineffective against the ultra-right of today. The reasons are clear; the right is playing hard, fast and bold while the opposition is lost in analysis and navel gazing. ‘Storming the Bastille’ may again be required to precipitate change. Demos, alternative media, various forms of dissenting propaganda have all failed to alter the course of events. It would seem that while one side is playing hardball (for keeps) the other is content to fossick on the shores of world-shaping politics. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 14:59 by reader   text 1 comment (last - friday march 17, 2006 03:09)
After three years since the start of the Iraq, where is the US in this project? To answer that we have to look at why the war was launched and what the neocon elite in Washington wants. Their aim is very simple, and very hard to achieve – control of the world order. read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 10:51 by posted by Global Women's Strike Ireland   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 15, 2006 11:49)
Mehmet Tarhan, gay Kurdish conscientious objector, was released from military prison on 9 March. The highest military court of appeal in Turkey (the Military Court of Cassation) ruled that he had been punished enough for his “crime”. His crime was refusing to kill... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Wednesday March 15, 2006 09:41 by Xinhua   text 1 comment (last - wednesday march 15, 2006 12:08)
The Alternative Social Forum said that the real reason the U.S. army is present in the region is to control, dominate and interfere in the Dominican Republic's politics.
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 14, 2006 21:16 by Cohlien Oh-Aissieux   text 1 comment (last - tuesday march 14, 2006 21:36)
In an article published on Sunday 12 March, The Chicago Tribune disclosed that it had discovered the identities of "more than 2,600 CIA employees, 50 internal agency telephone numbers and the locations of some two dozen secret CIA facilities around the United States."

Some of those exposed were supposedly secret agents, but the information was freely available on searching in an online database accessed on paying a subscription.

Searching aviation databases for flights landing or taking off from the small airstrip at the CIA's training facility at Camp Peary revealed 17 aircraft whose ownership and flight histories could also be traced.

Unfortunately, the Trib has not published details of just how it found the classified information.

Please read the full article below - reproduced in full so as to ensure free and full access under principles of fair use. read full story / add a comment
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international / miscellaneous / other press Tuesday March 14, 2006 18:06 by antonia   text 6 comments (last - monday march 12, 2007 19:23)   image 7 images
Italy, Milano. Massive riots started in the heart of the Italian financial capitol, Milano, when hundreds of antifascists attacked police because of their repressive behaviour. The police wanted to stop the antifascists from building barricades against a neofascists´ march through Milano.
Police lost control: Windows of Banks and Companies were broken, cars and buildings were set on fire, even a nail bomb exploded in a group of police men....
Many persons were injured, some heavily, 45 were arrested.

The antifascists wanted to stop neo-fascists from marching through Milano - the police read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism / other press Tuesday March 14, 2006 14:41 by pat c   text 5 comments (last - thursday april 27, 2006 12:48)
Israeli sodiers have invaded the West Bank Town of Jerhico and have murdered a prison guard during an attack on the jail. They are trying to seize PFLP Leaderr Ahmed Saadat who is alleged to have assassinated an Israeli cabinet minister. Mr Saadat is also normally guarded by British and US monitors but they were mysteriously withdrawn before the attack. Fuelling rumours of British and US complicity in the Israeli attack.

Full story at the link.

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steve bell. 28/01/05.
international / arts and media / other press Monday March 13, 2006 23:21 by by Rt. Hon. Dr. O as if   image 1 image
really is what this little human interest global bestseller related 20 second read other press category story is about. read full story / add a comment
galway / rights, freedoms and repression / other press Monday March 13, 2006 21:40 by Tommy Donnellan on behalf of Gerald O'Connor   text 189 comments (last - monday august 20, 2007 13:27)   image 1 image   3 attached files
Since the Nuremberg Trials came to a close in 1946, condemning the Nazi officials responsible for the Holocaust, it has been the common hope of the people in the world that concentration camps like Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau, would never again emerge in the history of mankind. The horrifying fact is that a similar facility is at this very moment in operation in China.
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ILO poster on the killing of trade unionists in Colombia
international / anti-capitalism / other press Monday March 13, 2006 13:48 by Peter   text 40 comments (last - saturday march 25, 2006 17:42)   image 2 images
International Union of Foodworkers (IUF) and Coca-Cola agreement to request United Nations' ILO to conduct independent investigation of Coca-Cola labour practices in Colombia

Posted to the IUF website on 02-Mar-2006 - www.iuf.org

The IUF has consistently expressed serious concerns about labour relations practices in the Coca-Cola system's Colombian operations. Like others, we have supported the call for an independent investigation (rather than a Coca-Cola initiated internal assessment) as the only adequate response to reported serious rights violations. The IUF has now secured agreement with The Coca-Cola Company that both parties shall request the United Nations, through its International Labour Organization (ILO), to conduct such an investigation. read full story / add a comment
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